Dostoevskiian

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“He confessed to his readers that his May 22 article stressing Khrushchev's affinity to the Dostoevskiian peasant had made the fallen leader angry.”

“With his rage-disguising Dostoevskiian philosophy of “humble charity,” Novak is assured that the meek shall indeed inherit⟳ the earth, as each person learns to live⟳ with “gentleness, compassion, and patience” in his ethnic habitat of neighborhood or thought.”

“The Prince accepts twenty rubles from General Epanchin with the gratefulness of a holy man begging alms, that is, with none of the ambivalence and resentment of a typical hypersensitive Dostoevskiian hero or, for that matter⟳, of Dostoevskii himself (30).”

“Van der Luft and Stenberg (1991) have⟳ developed Miller’s analysis of the similarities between the two texts. In their paper (ibid.: 442), the two scholars claim⟳ to “present⟳ not only additional evidence that Nietzsche used Dostoevskii in the composition of the preface, but also evidence of a difference – a Dostoevskiian difference – between his predemarcation and postmedarcation writings.””

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